HM 2nd Grade: Theme 3, Selection 2

Theme 3 a Trip to the Firehouse

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 1, Focus on Poetry

Various themes have a section called, "Focus On ..."  or "Progress Monitoring".  I picked up the manuals at school today and completed Theme One: Focus On Poetry.

Theme 1 Focus on Poetry

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 3, Selection 1

I took a break for a few days and decided to keep plugging away at my personal focus walls. I looked over the ones I uploaded last week and saw a few flaws, so I uploaded an updated a revised copy to my TpT store. You will want to download Dragon Gets By and Mrs. Brown Went to Town. I will complete the progress monitoring and focus on genre when I get access to the manuals next week at school.

Theme 3 Chinatown

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 2, Selection 3

Here is the 3rd focus wall for theme 2. The selection is Around the Pond:Who's Been Here?

Theme 2 Around the Pond

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 2, Selection 2

Here is the 2nd focus wall for theme 2. The selection is Exploring the Parks with Ranger Dockett.

Theme 2 Ranger Dockett

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 2, Selection 1

Here is the 1st focus wall for theme 2. The selection is Henry and Mudge: Starry Night.

Theme 2 Henry and Mudge

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 1, Selection 3

Here is the 3rd focus wall for theme 1.  The selection is Mrs. Brown Went to Town.

Theme 1 Mrs Brown Goes to Town

HM 2nd Grade: Theme 1, Selection 2

Here is the 2nd focus wall for theme 1.  The selection is Julius.

Theme 1 Julius

Personal Focus Wall

My county adopted Houghton Mifflin Reading many years ago.  I've used the focus wall located in my pages above and love that the kids would refer to wall.  I've decided to rethink the sheets this summer to conserve on paper and allow a new twist.

At times the kids become a little distracting when getting in and out of their seat.  I have an open classroom and welcome the kids to any resource or supply they need without asking but we all know there is a student that will try to evade their work.  I decided to incorporate the focus wall on their office.  I currently use the office for test so that students aren't tempted to have roaming eyes.  How about a personal focus wall?

Today I created a sample of the office.  I stapled two file folders together.  This year I stapled close to the edge to allow more space. 

Next I cut off the edge of a pocket protector since the whole punched side for notebooks will not be needed.  I stapled the sheet protector to the inside of the office. 

Each week the kids will rotate out a new focus wall.  The old wall will go in their language arts folder (reading, skills, and writing). 

This will become a collection of words and strategies for the kids to use as reference at workstations, independent reading, or writing.  My intentions are to create a sheet for each genre of writing with a rubric and editing marks, each module for math with strategies and vocabulary, and science.  Here is a preview of the first focus sheet created. 

Theme 1 Dragon Gets By

The fun didn't stop here.  I worked on all my cabinets today.  I will have to go back up to school tomorrow to add all my labels I created during the math workstations previous post.  Check out how organized and neat...

Math Supplies

Classroom Supplies

Small Supply Bins

Papers

Art Supplies

Curriculum Resources in the Office